A lovestruck Serbian man hired a fleet of taxi cabs to spell out his wedding proposal to his fiance. The effort proved fruitful as his teary-eyed girlfriends responded with an overwhelming "Yes!" Local media said that Vujadin Stojkovic from Arandjelovac, Serbia hired a dozen taxi drivers to paint a single letter of "udaj se za mene," which means "marry me," on the side of their cabs.

A judge with teenage children has used her own experiences to sentence offending drivers to a suitable punishment; riding the bus to school. Porter Superior Judge Julia Jent says teen drivers weren't taking fines seriously until she ordered a young girl to take the bus to school, and she burst into tears outside the courtroom.

Jericho, West Bank (AHN)-The Palestinian man who befriended a 16-year-old Michigan girl through the popular MySpace. com Web site and invited her to join him in Jericho says he is heartbroken by U. S. authorities' decision to send her back home. Abdullah Jimzawi, 20, who is an internet buff who spends at least 10 hours a day on the Internet, says that his love for Katherine Lester, of Gilford, Michigan was pure and they planned to marry. He also decried attempts to portray him as an internet predator.

Animal rights protesters swarmed into a restaurant serving cat meat in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen and forced it to shut down. Xinhua reports that 40 or so, mainly female demonstrators-holding banners reading "cats and dogs are friends of human beings"-entered the Fangji Cat Meatball restaurant and demanded the owner free any live cats on the premises.

Two of German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn's most die hard fans, Akram Marufshonow and Musadshon Chornidow, cycled over 4,000 miles from their home country of Uzbekistan to Germany in order to get an autograph by the German star. Kahn, who was voted MVP at the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, was amazed to hear of the young fans' cross-continent journey in order to meet him and agreed to meet them in Berlin.